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24 Feb

Is law enforcement turning journalists into agents of state surveillance?

<p><strong>By Thomas Rose, Law Editor</strong></p><p>They’re called "production orders" and they signal what may be a growing trend among law enforcement agencies to co-opt journalists into becoming agents of state surveillance.</p><p>Production orders occur when a judge agrees to a police request to compel media outlets to surrender material obtained by journalists in the course of preparing their news reports. </p>

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24 Feb

Globe public editor: Even disturbing photos tell a story

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_65.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>“I suppose the intent was to shock, but you crossed the line.” That is what one unhappy reader had to say about a photo on last Wednesday’s front page.</p>

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24 Feb

Globe public editor: How should countries be ranked in the Olympics?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_61.JPG" title="" /></p><div><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></div><p>A reader asked this week why <em>The Globe and Mail</em> doesn’t use the official Olympic method of ranking countries when presenting medal counts.</p>

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24 Feb

Remembering Peter Desbarats

<p><strong>By David Spencer and Jim Etherington</strong></p><p>A widely recognized figure in Canadian journalism, author, playwright and former Dean of Journalism at Western University, Peter Desbarats died February 11, 2014, after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.</p>

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24 Feb

Who does the CBC compete with?

<p><strong>By Jo-Ann Roberts</strong></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/CBC LOGO_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p>There’s nothing like hockey to get your attention in this country. So now that we know CBC has lost the rights to NHL games, let’s talk.</p>

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20 Feb

Why bother with data-driven journalism?

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/crude_awakening3[1].JPG" title="" /><em>Courtesy globalnews.ca</em></p><p><strong>By</strong> <strong>Anna Mehler Paperny</strong></p><p>Why bother with data-driven journalism?</p><p>Because there’s more data out there than ever before and not nearly enough people asking it questions.</p><p>Because trend stories aren’t good enough. Nor is telling readers something they already know.</p>

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19 Feb

How to keep your emotional distance as a journalist

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/Hospital-2_0.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Ishani Nath</strong></p>

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19 Feb

The Unknowable Country: What does Reporters Without Borders’ press freedom index actually mean?

<p><strong>By Sean Holman</strong></p><p>Last year, the country's freedom of information commissioners <a href="http://seanholman.com/2013/10/28/the-unknowable-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for a modernization of the antiquated laws that are supposed to allow, but in many cases, now frustrate journalists' access to public records.</p><p>Indeed, <a href="http://www.law-democracy.org/live/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Nov-2013-Chart2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Centre for Law and Democracy, 55 other nations have stronger information rights laws than we do.</p>

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18 Feb

Public editor: Why the Star published secret Conservative party documents

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Kathy English_14.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /> <strong>By Kathy English, public editor of the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>There was a time, not so long ago, before the dawn of the Internet era, when the secret documents of politicians and public officials arrived in newsrooms in brown envelopes sent from anonymous sources.</p>

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18 Feb

Globe public editor: The PM and the floating hockey stick explained

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Stead_12.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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